Server Now a Rails Machine
Posted by kev Fri, 11 Aug 2006 20:16:00 GMT
Today I finished moving my blog hosting from Planet Argon to my shiny new Rails Machine and upgraded to Typo 4. If you see problems in the feed or display, please do tell me about it. (Comments are on.)
Planet Argon was great for blog hosting, but shared hosting for Rails applications is a pain. Rails Machine gives me what I need to get several applications running stable and lets me be in control. At the same time the ease of use is amazing. I’ve been deploying Rails applications for almost a year and a half now and this is hands down the most simple and effective system I’ve worked with. Period. The support has been stellar as well. If you’re looking to get out of the shared hosting space I can easily give Rails Machine my endorsement.
Update: It’s easy to say that a group has great service, but in this case I’m compelled to give an example or two. After a few weeks of service at RM, Brad pinged me on Freenode to ask how things were workin out. When the recent excitement happened with Rails releases I got emails telling me about it and urging me to update. Earlier today I was struggling with getting irssi installed on my Rails Machine because the CentOS RPM didn’t like (what I thought was) glibc and the configure script complained too. I just found this in my email:
The problem was GLib not glibc. Ha!
Here’s your fix: yum install ncurses-devel glib-devel
:bradley
It’s hard not to rave about this.
